Bangor, Jan. 29-30

Downtown Bangor Public Humanities Day

Friday, January 29
Downtown Bangor Public Humanities Kickoff Event
PechaKucha, 7:00 p.m. start (doors open at 6:30)
COESPACE (48 Columbia Street)

Presentations on music, art, history, travel and literature by four UMaine faculty and four local non-academic practitioners. Entry is free, food and drink provided. Come early it will be a packed house!

Humanities-themed PechaKucha Speakers
Anticipated speakers and topics for January 29 (not in presentation order).

  • Constant Albertson (Art & Art Education, UMaine,): “Coordinates of Collateral Damage”
  • Matt Bishop (Bangor Historical Society): “Ghosts in Bangor”
  • Beth Brand, (mostly retired music educator & cellist): “Grand Opera: Gateway to the World”
  • Dan Dowd (visual artist on display at UMMA): “Thick Skinned: Art & the Local Transfer Station”
  • Claude de Lannée (French teacher, Orono/Old Town): “How to get from Paris to Orono in 40 Years”
  • Liam Riordan (History/Humanities, UMaine): “How I Came to Love History”
  • Frederic Rondeau (French/MLC, UMaine): “A (very) Brief History of Quebec Literature”
  • Beth Wiemann (Music, UMaine): “Poet’s Singing?”

Saturday, January 30

  • 12:15 p.m. Gallery talk by artist Dan Dowd about his exhibit “thick skinned” at the
    UMaine Museum of Art (UMMA). The museum is at 40 Harlow St.
    or enter from the bridge over the Kenduskeag Canal.
  • 1:00 p.m. Discussion of Richard Whitten’s exhibit “Studiolo” by Michael Grillo
    (Art History, UMaine) and Kat Johnson (UMMA) at the UMMA.
  • 1:30 p.m. Screening and discussion about short early 20th century films by Georges
    Méliés at the UMMA.
  • 2:30 p.m. Screening of film Hugo (inspired by Méliés and set in Paris) with River
    City Cinema at the Maine Discovery Museum (74 Main St.)
  • 3:30 p.m. Readings by Norumbega Collective authors Chris Becker, Joe Linscott,
    and Tyler Nute at Bangor Public Library (145 Harlow St.)UMaine students (and others!) are encouraged to take the Community Connector bus to attend the free events on Saturday. A graduate student will help guide the group on the bus, which departs at 11:30 a.m. from behind the Memorial Student Union. At the end of the day, the last bus to return to campus departs from the Depot in Downtown Bangor at 5:15 p.m. We will have gift certificates for students to eat and shop at varied places in Downtown Bangor on January 30!

Click here to download the complete schedule for Saturday, Jan. 30 (PDF).